At Joseph Hood, we are committed to ensuring that every child’s voice is heard and valued. Through being part of our 'Changemakers', our pupils develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills that will serve them throughout their lives.

Pupils at Joseph Hood Primary like to make a change! We have several students who are part of our School Changemakers Group. Each group had to write their own mission statement and their own actions for the year ahead.

'House Captains'

District: Max and Giselle, Circle: Bethan and Seb, Picadilly: Luiza and Harley, Central: Josh and Carla. 

Our 'Eco-Ambassadors'

Our Mission is to help with exciting projects like planting flowers and trees, making special homes for small animals, and creating wild spaces for everyone to enjoy.

Our actions are to: Short term: Planting flowers and trees, making special homes for small animals, and creating wild spaces. 

Desired Impact: Everybody will be able to enjoy all ‘nature areas’ within our school and all green spaces in the playground.

Long term: Everyone in the school will show greater respect for our green areas.

Our 'Reading Champions'

Our mission is to inspire a love of reading across our school by sharing stories, supporting younger readers and making reading fun for everyone – one story, one book, one reader at a time.

Our actions are: Short term: support and encourage younger readers to improve their reading skills.

Desired Impact: Children read for pleasure/enjoyment and progress through the reading levels/book bands.

Long Term: improve and promote the library and book corners. 

Desired Impact: The library and book corners will feel exciting, welcoming, and full of books children want to read.

Our 'Rights Respecting' Team

Our Mission is to help every pupil understand their rights and for them to know how to speak up about their needs to anyone.  

Short term: For everyone to be able to know and talk about the right to learn, right to be safe, respected.  

Desired Impact: everyone will feel part of the school community. 

Everyone will be able to have a voice and speak up about these rights.

Everyone will feel like they belong somewhere. 

Long Term: For everyone to be able to know and talk about the right to have friends, health, water, food and environment, access to information. 

Desired Impact:

-Everyone has someone to talk to, play with and feel supported by 

- Everyone should be able to share and talk about the above rights. 

- For nobody to worry about where their food, water and health is coming from. Also, to be able to stand up and voice their knowledge of these rights.

Sports Leaders

Mission Statement   ‘We lead, we play, we inspire!’ 

We are committed to raising the profile of physical activity by leading games, mentoring younger pupils and creating a supportive active school community.

Our actions are: 

Short term: Run lunchtime games for pupils across the school.

Desired Impact: Develop leadership, communication, and organisation skills while promoting active play for all pupils. 

Long Term: Mentor younger students in basic sport skills or teamwork.

Desired Impact: Foster a culture of peer support and leadership across the school.

Wellbeing Team

Our mission is to promote positive mental health and wellbeing by making our school a happy, kind and supportive place where everyone feels safe, listened to and cared for.

Our actions are: 

Short term: Run lunchtime games for pupils across the school.

Desired Impact: Develop leadership, communication, and organisation skills while promoting active play for all pupils. 

Long Term: Mentor younger students in basic sports skills or teamwork.

Desired Impact: Foster a culture of peer support and leadership across the school.

Which charities would we like to support this year?

We are committed to supporting three important charities: the Lunch Bowl Project, which provides vital support for children in the Kibera slum. Children in Need, a charity that helps disadvantaged children across the UK and The Dons Group who are a local charity set up during covid to help vulnerable families in our community.